Astronomers have had a rare glimpse into the heart of the Milky Way thanks to an errant star expelled from the galactic centre. At the middle of our galaxy is a supermassive black hole ...

In the past, map makers often placed monsters on their maps to mark unexplored regions and potentially dangerous regions. A ...

Toward the end of the 18th century, astronomer William Herschel used star counts to map out the Milky Way. He cataloged a thousand new nebulae and clusters of stars. He believed that the nebulae ...

In 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei used the newly invented telescope to show that the Milky Way was composed of a ... Some were gaseous, star-forming regions, such as the Orion nebula, or M42 ...

The observations detailed the extreme environment in the immediate vicinity of Sagittarius A* (pronounced A-star), the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. Sagittarius A* is ...

a 10-million-year-old open star cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way that boasts an abundance of star-forming regions. A few young stars shine through dense ...

The key settings for capturing the Milky Way include a wide-open aperture of f/2.8 or lower to allow maximum light, a shutter speed of 20 to 25 seconds to capture enough detail without star ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has recorded never-before-seen images of the hot disc swirling around the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy. It found the disc constantly ...

Astronomers have spotted the shiniest known planet in the Milky Way, and it has metal clouds that appear to be raining down titanium droplets. Exoplanet LTT9779 b, which orbits a star about 262 ...